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'We still have embeds in CISA': CTO of Brit cyber agency talks post-Trump relationship with US counterpart

The Register · Connor Jones · last updated

The top brass from the UK’s cyber agency say everything is business as usual when it comes to the GCHQ arm’s relationship with CISA, amid growing unease about the current administration’s treatment of its US equivalent.

Since retaking power, Donald Trump’s administration has routinely criticized CISA, an agency that rubbished the President’s claim that his election loss in 2020 was due to “fraud,” bringing uncertainty to its status in the department headed up by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

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